60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Mystery, Choose Your Own Adventure, Multiple Endings.
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Poisoned Path
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Clean Slate
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Detective 14.1%, Hand-drawn 13.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.6%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Detective 16%, Investigation 14.2%, Multiple Endings 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.7%, Choices Matter 8.6%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 14.2%, Investigation 12.3%, Mystery 12%, Emotional 12%, Visual Novel 11.8%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Detective 13.5%, Investigation 9.8%, Visual Novel 9.4%, Emotional 9%, Multiple Endings 8.9%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Detective 15.7%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.1%, Drama 12%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 20.7%, Investigation 17%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Become a righteous hacker detective who solves people's problems... and hack the requested PC by solving riddles! Analyze the PC by hacking! And... solve the source of your client's problems in the PC! This game is a puzzle solving adventure. You can hack by solving riddles.
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Mystery 14.9%, Emotional 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Drama 10.7%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 15.8%, Investigation 13.8%, Emotional 9.9%, Visual Novel 9.5%, Drama 9.4%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 21.5%, Visual Novel 13.2%, Mystery 11.5%, Choices Matter 10%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 24.2%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Mystery 13%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Detective 15.1%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Mystery 10.7%, Emotional 10.4%, Multiple Endings 10%
The Apple Tree is an interactive story in the genre of a visual novel. Investigate a series of murders together with police Captain Christian Tyler and try not to fall into the trap of criminals!
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 14.3%, Visual Novel 11.6%, Drama 11.5%, Dark 8.6%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Investigation 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Mystery 10.2%
Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14%, Drama 13.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Dark 11.5%, Emotional 10.3%
A visual novel depicting a protagonist who desperately struggles to change their fate of despair.
Why similar: Emotional 15.8%, Visual Novel 14.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Drama 10.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%
You can't understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality.” Talk. Mind Read. Translate. An empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 13.2%, Detective 12.8%, Visual Novel 12%, Mystery 11.2%, Emotional 10.8%
Unravel the mystery of the King's sudden death... Claim your right for the throne. Try to stay alive as long as possible. Will you take the risk? The story for those who are brave enough to dive in a dark story and are able to think reasonably.
Why similar: Detective 18%, Drama 13.8%, Mystery 12.1%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Choices Matter 9.4%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 23%, Investigation 19.4%, Mystery 14%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.3%
Black Lilies - Eternal Summer is a yuri English Visual Novel made by one lone dev. Alice and her friends must try to find they way out of an endless time loop, or lose their minds trying. Drama, mystery, murder, and suffering awaits them... As does romance, if they can survive.
Why similar: Investigation 18.8%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Drama 14.8%, Dark 12.4%, Emotional 12.1%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 19.6%, Investigation 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?
Why similar: Detective 20.3%, Visual Novel 15.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14%, Emotional 13.5%, Lore-Rich 9.4%
Shape Delvin’s fate by navigating fragile relationships, uncover hidden motives, and peel back the layers of a world that grows stranger the deeper you go. Meet unforgettable characters, make impossible choices, and discover just how far you’re willing to go to protect yourself or your loved ones.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.6%, Investigation 16.3%, Emotional 13.6%, Dark 10.3%, Lore-Rich 9.2%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Ezrebeth is an old, bitter recluse who finds herself constantly invaded by her peculiar relatives during the winter holidays. Oh, and she's stuck in a time loop! Investigate, interview and cross-reference as you attempt to figure out what's going on in this surreal visual novel.
Why similar: Detective 21.4%, Drama 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 11.4%, Multiple Endings 11%
Roadtrip across the country. Confront a tyrant. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier.
Why similar: Mystery 12.5%, Drama 11.3%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Dark 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.5%
Seventy-eight years after the Great Collapse, the city of Belmarc stands as a beacon of civilization amid the ruins. A city where magic and technology intertwine, where humans and machines coexist. And in its depths, one Courier begins to chase the forgotten sins of the past.
Why similar: Detective 22.2%, Investigation 15.8%, Visual Novel 13.8%, Drama 11.8%, Lore-Rich 11.8%
Life is easier when you're a small creature on a farm. Everything is decided for you, and your fate is written out until the very end. Sounds like a fairy tale... or maybe a nightmare? Enjoy the peaceful times. You'll never leave it, because you're safe here... Or are you?
Why similar: Detective 19.9%, Investigation 14.7%, Visual Novel 13.4%, Drama 12.2%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Why similar: Detective 24.5%, Drama 17.1%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Mystery 13.5%, Multiple Endings 11.2%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Detective 13.3%, Investigation 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 20.4%, Investigation 15.9%, Mystery 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.4%, Multiple Endings 12.4%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Investigation 14.2%, Detective 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Mystery 9.7%, Emotional 8.4%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 21%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choices Matter 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
莺神乐的知名作品，在Steam中高清化上架！ 与书本坠入爱河，畅游在书本与魔法的世界中吧！
Why similar: Detective 16.8%, Emotional 12.5%, Drama 12.4%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 26.4%, Investigation 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.5%, Multiple Endings 9%, Choices Matter 8.6%
At what point does a simple desire become an obsession? This is one of the dilemmas faced by Beatrice, a photography student as bitter as reality itself. Within a tangle of unfolding mysteries, she will discover that the most beautiful manifestation of the past holds a chaotic future.
Why similar: Visual Novel 19.7%, Hand-drawn 17.3%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Drama 13.6%, Mystery 13.4%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 24.8%, Investigation 20.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Emotional 14.1%, Visual Novel 14%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
Private Eye is a detective game where you play as Hakeem trying to solve the murder case of Amir. The wealthy heir Amir kept strange company, is one of them his murderer? Explore, investigate, solve puzzles, and find discrepancies to unravel his mysterious death.
Why similar: Detective 21%, Investigation 18.3%, Mystery 11.8%, Choices Matter 8.7%, Drama 8.1%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Mystery 13.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.6%
Deep night, famous suspense novelist fell from the balcony, leaving his young wife an enormous heritage. Accident, or calculated murder?Novelist's nephew secretly began investigation.He found a hidden manuscript, which contains a creep story, as well as the key clues concerning its author's death.
Why similar: Detective 20.6%, Investigation 18%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Emotional 10.2%, Drama 9.9%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 12.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
Dive into what lies below in “Beneath the Cherry Blossom Tree” an immersive visual novel where every choice carves a path through a tapestry of mystery, romance, and intrigue. Unravel a story that intertwines destiny, personality, and local folklore
Why similar: Drama 15.4%, Mystery 13.8%, Multiple Endings 13.3%, Choices Matter 12.3%, Visual Novel 12.2%
A horror visual novel where you take on the role of a spy delving into the memories of others to find dirt on a sinister biocorporation. Not for children or the easily disturbed.
Why similar: Detective 15.4%, Investigation 14.9%, Mystery 11%, Lore-Rich 9.4%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
A horror and exploration adventure that tells the story of Blanche, who was found alone in the gardens of Launderley, in front of a pile of twenty-nine corpses.
Why similar: Detective 19.8%, Investigation 18.7%, Drama 12.3%, Lore-Rich 11.7%, Hand-drawn 10.7%
A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.
Why similar: Detective 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Investigation 15.2%, Hand-drawn 14.4%, Drama 11.8%
Unravel a string of gruesome murders terrorizing Tokyo in this mystery-thriller visual novel. The secrets of a case from six years prior may just be the key to the current unending cycle of tragedy—and the thing that cracks this woeful world’s shell may be one girl’s smile.
Why similar: Detective 24%, Visual Novel 15.9%, Mystery 13.6%, Choices Matter 10.2%, Dark 8.9%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Investigation 19.2%, Detective 19.2%, Mystery 11.8%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
古风悬疑推理AVG《再见断刀》——在与世隔绝的山庄之中，接二连三地发生了骇人命案。只有通过细致入微的调查，抽丝剥茧的推理，才能定一个是非清白，还一个天理公道。 然而，在逐渐浮出水面的真相之下，似乎还有暗流涌动……
Why similar: Detective 19%, Visual Novel 11.9%, Emotional 11.3%, Investigation 10.8%, Mystery 10.1%
A thriller and mystery visual novel about broken trust and the search for truth, when a high-school student is accused of his parents’ brutal murder. Every choice might bring you closer to the truth... or end in tragedy.
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Lore-Rich 13.2%, Mystery 12.9%, Detective 11%, Multiple Endings 10.4%
Suhoshin is a 2D Visual Novel set in the medieval Joseon period of Korea. While investigating a series of mysterious murders, you will have to make choices that will lead you down different paths toward different endings.
Why similar: Visual Novel 13.8%, Detective 13.4%, Mystery 12%, Investigation 11.4%, Drama 9.4%
KILLA is a 3D adventure mystery with multiple endings. Valhalla, our protagonist, seeks the killer of her mentor, a mentor she treasures like family, venturing to an unknown island. Discover the culprit on this enigmatic island and embark on a journey of revenge.
Why similar: Detective 17.1%, Investigation 17%, Visual Novel 11.4%, Mystery 11%, Lore-Rich 8.9%
In Kayotica, you play as April—a clever but manipulative student caught in a web of friendship, rivalry, and dark crimes. What begins as ordinary campus life quickly turns into a mystery of betrayal, hidden truths, and a shocking murder. Can you solve the mystery, or will you become the next victim?
Why similar: Detective 16.3%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.4%, Emotional 10.5%
2000年，山城市新闻频道的电视画面莫名跳出一则旧广告，而广告的代言人是已经去世的特异功能少年——三眼神童。有传闻三眼神童的亡魂劫持了电视信号。 调查局受命展开调查。随着调查的深入，一个藏在黑暗处的犯罪团伙逐渐浮出水面。
Why similar: Drama 17.4%, Mystery 17%, Detective 13.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 18.8%, Investigation 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 28.9%, Investigation 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Mystery 12.1%, Story Rich 7.7%
My name is left behind these white walls. In its place, I am left with dozens of questions. I wander aimlessly, though she seems to guide me. I do not feel safe. Twenty-four hours... and everything will fall into place.
Why similar: Investigation 14.5%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Emotional 11.4%, Drama 10.7%, Hand-drawn 10.6%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 24%, Detective 21.8%, Choices Matter 11.2%, Emotional 10.8%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
I Am The Prosecutor is a non-linear Visual Novel about defending a cute Tomboy named Sophie where you're given just 30 seconds to make the right choice each time. Help make Sophie's case against her abusive mother and give her much needed closure.
Why similar: Detective 27.5%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 13.7%, Choices Matter 11.9%, Story Rich 9.2%
本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Detective 25.6%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Mystery 15.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Drama 13%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 31.6%, Investigation 22.4%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Mystery 13%, Story Rich 9%
